Sunday, April 26, 2009

Promoting Fun at Work


Today organizations across all the sectors are emphasizing on making the daily work interesting and challenging by introducing new elements of surprise so that their employees are motivated to come to office and look forward to a new day and an enriched experience.

Employees spend most of their day hours at the work place and there are times when the work gets extremely challenging, in addition to being highly stressful. This can have an adverse effect on employee productivity. At times like these, it is important to give employees opportunities to de-stress. In such a scenario, it becomes essential for the organization to promote an employee- friendly work culture by nurturing the spirit of innovation amongst employees and helping their career growth.

There are some interesting working ways/programs that energize and motivate employees and add fun in their work life. Some of the companies organized games and competition to bring together employees from all the departments. Various clubs pertaining to different hobbies like sports, music, dance, drama, movie and book reading etc, have been formed. Employees with common interest use these clubs as platform to share and interact informally. Team outing, celebrations of festivals, recognition programs and annual day of fest are some of the ways that ad fun in everyday work life.

A challenging, vibrant and fun-filled work culture automatically motives employees and they look forward to coming to office everyday.

The work is not of routine nature and that is the reason they keep changing the domain area and the products people work on. The company also rotates the roles they play. In addition senior people have the choice to continue in core technology area, rather than shift to management roles.

A dedicated HR employee relations team is responsible for designing various recreational programs internally to keep its employee engaged, informed and motivated. Under these engagements, various levels of continuous learning opportunities are provided to employees, all festivals are celebrated with equal spirit, professional success of individuals and employees birthdays are celebrated with vigor and enthusiasm, managers are encouraged to celebrate project success by taking their respective terms out of entertainment, various technology/ leadership trainings are provided internally on a regular basis.

Supervises taking the lead:
Employees are closest to their team supervisors. They are the ones who the employees work closely and look up to. So without the team supervisors’ involvement no such initiatives can become successful. Supervisors’ ply an important role to ensure that their team is engaged and productive. As they work closely with their employees they can customize their work to ensure that there is learning, knowledge sharing, brainstorming, ownership and a sense of achievement on delivery. All these elements and embankments put together to make the work interesting on a daily basis

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